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Outdated article[edit]

Here are articles that provide much more current information. As is, the Wikipedia article now reads like a PR piece.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/26145618?seq=1 (October 2013)
https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/masdar-green-city-adu-dhabi-failure/ (June 2016)
https://www.fastcompany.com/3061187/a-rare-tour-of-masdar-the-failed-smart-city-in-the-arabian-desert (June 2016)
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/16/masdars-zero-carbon-dream-could-become-worlds-first-green-ghost-town (February 2016)
https://grist.org/climate-energy/the-worlds-first-zero-carbon-city-is-a-big-failure/ (February 2016)
http://steamgreen.unibo.it/2017/03/10/masdar-city-project-criticisms-complete-failure/ (March 2017)
https://inhabitat.com/masdars-failed-sustainable-city-may-be-doomed-to-become-a-green-ghost-town/ (February 2016)
https://www.greenprophet.com/2018/01/masdar-city-the-ecotopia-that-never-was/ (January 2018)
https://www.popsci.com/masdar-city-ghost-town-or-green-lab/ (April 2018)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-14/the-reality-of-abu-dhabi-s-unfinished-utopia (February 2020)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629619308904 (April 2020)

-- John Broughton (♫♫) 01:23, 3 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I am finding the whole PR-ish feel pretty awful too, especially given how dead it looks right now on satellite (Well it's 2019 imagery, but still). I put up a missing information template instead of update because... I don't know. --Artoria 2e5 🌉 17:53, 16 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
It is very PR-ish. This project is essentially greenwashing (for UAE + COP28) and I suspect that the people who made this article have some amount of interest in shedding the project in a positive light. I have multiple peer reviewed papers to back my claims and I intend to edit the article to bring some nuance in. FeetSupremacy (talk) 00:51, 4 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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